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Tap into the world's largest social network for readers with the Goodreads Android app! Read thousands of book reviews by your friends and other Goodreads members, keep a virtual bookshelf of what you've read, and build your to-read list as you discover great books on the app.

Goodreads is a free service for everyone who reads. We have more than 35 million members who have added more than 1 billion books.

* Search, rate, and review any book in our catalog of more than 12 million books.* See book reviews and updates from your friends, and comment on them.* Browse your shelves! Next time you are deciding what to read, your to-read list will be handy.* Add status updates and page number updates for books you are currently reading.* Use the barcode scanner to quickly scan all of your books onto your Goodreads shelves.* Also use the scanner to quickly access book information while on the go.* Find your address book contacts or Facebook friends on Goodreads

You can use the basic features of this app without a Goodreads account, but sign in or sign up (you can do this in the app) for the best experience!

--Why does Goodreads need the READ_CONTACTS permission?You may choose to use your Android Contacts to find which of your family and friends are already on Goodreads. Your contacts will not be read unless you explicitly choose to do this.

You must install this app before submitting a review.

Google Play reviews now use Google+ so it's easier to see opinions from people you care about. New reviews will be publicly linked to your Google+ profile. Your name on previous reviews now appears as "A Google User".

Google Play reviews now use Google+ so it's easier to see opinions from people you care about. New reviews will be publicly linked to your Google+ profile. Your name on previous reviews now appears as "A Google User".

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Trolls. I think you need better verification of users. There are so many trolls, who have no photo, no friends or personal information, and they rate indie books one star with no explanation after being signed up for one day. They are obviously fake profiles and I think you need to make a way to verify who these people are before they start rating books falsely.

Best app for all your reading logs Really love it as its my reading companion and helps me to find good books scan bar code of the books I have and it tells me how much I read every month and year. Every reader should connect with it. Really it makes you a civilised reader.

Could be SO better.. I absolutely love goodreads and use it very often but prefer to use the desktop site instead of this app in spite of the updates because it lacks some basic features such as updating the status of currently reading books etc. It simply doesn't match up to the desktop version.

Won't load I use goodreads pretty frequently and unfortunately the app has recently become very unreliable. Sometimes it's working fine and then suddenly I can't get anything to load. It's not a WiFi problem. It's within the app. This started after the recent update please fix!

Trolls. I think you need better verification of users. There are so many trolls, who have no photo, no friends or personal information, and they rate indie books one star with no explanation after being signed up for one day. They are obviously fake profiles and I think you need to make a way to verify who these people are before they start rating books falsely.

Best app for all your reading logs Really love it as its my reading companion and helps me to find good books scan bar code of the books I have and it tells me how much I read every month and year. Every reader should connect with it. Really it makes you a civilised reader.

Could be SO better.. I absolutely love goodreads and use it very often but prefer to use the desktop site instead of this app in spite of the updates because it lacks some basic features such as updating the status of currently reading books etc. It simply doesn't match up to the desktop version.

Won't load I use goodreads pretty frequently and unfortunately the app has recently become very unreliable. Sometimes it's working fine and then suddenly I can't get anything to load. It's not a WiFi problem. It's within the app. This started after the recent update please fix!

App won't work with Android 4.2?! I have this app on my Kindle Fire and absolutely love it. It's a shame that unless you have the very latest in an Android operating system some apps won't work. This being one of them. I can't afford the latest in technology so I guess that means that I have to do without.

Would Give 5 Stars, but... I LOVE Goodreads, but only like the app. It's missing some functions that would be helpful, like being able to add books to my shelves on "page 2." Another example: I love the scanning function, but after I deleted the shelf I scanned books to, it still came up as a shelf when I wanted to scan a different set of books (even though it wasn't showing or existing anywhere). I had to uninstall it and reinstall. Annoying.

UI not friendly It is hard to find books as the scanner doesn't read barcodes, and if the book your reading is a series our trilogy, the suggestions won't suggest the next book. Also, updating where you are in the book is not easy. You have to go into the section like your making a review of the book to update your reading progress. Wish you could do it right from the home screen our main "currently reading" panel

Loading issues with app I LOVE the Goodreads website, but not this app (and i really want to use it!) The app doesn't want to load my info - ever. Average waiting time before I give up: 4 mins of staring at a spinning circle. VERY frustrating! Please fix so I can use the app.

From my device I can't see the arrow that shows to edit profile. I have to go in my computer which I don't always have a chance. You know when u read a book and how it says your on page something of something. How do u do that?

The app takes way too long to do anything. Why is there not a "finished!" button next to a book on your Currently Reading shelf? Why make us load the whole shelf (which takes FOREVER, if it works at all)? Have the app store some of this info locally so it doesn't have to query the servers any time you do anything at all. Also, the option to add an entire series to a shelf at a time would be appreciated. Who has the patience to sit there and enter all 20 books in the Amelia Peabody series, for example? What a pain.

Slow/laggy, unintuitive Slow and laggy... Unintuitive, though at first it seems great. Couldnt get a book to "finish" or findnout how to set a finished date... And when i put a book as all pages read, it still says i am currently reading. The app is very slow also. Not much use using it when i can use the site on my phone

Poor performance Sometimes it takes very long to find a book or author. The Web site is speedier. Very long development time. The Web version hangs when trying to export books. Impressively bad app for a very popular service: a shame

Not functional ... crashing some often !! Nice app but very limited ! Why not have full functionality ! Hope to re-update the app with vital functions compared to its website . The app crash often don't know why !!

The best way to keep track of all the books on your shelf (and the one's you've yet to purchase!). It's like walking around with a bibliography of everything you've read and want to read in your pocket.

Camera?! Seriously?!?! Why does it need access to my Camera? When things need access to my Camera, unless they are Instagram or something like that, my first instinct is NO!!!! Why does a book website need my Camera? The answer is they shouldn't. They don't need access to my Camera! I am rethinking my downloading of this book because of that permission, and will not raise my review until permission is lifted, or explained to me.

Getting more irritated Why isn't there a like button on a friend's review. I don't want to search for it. The light grey text used for everything except titles, has an incredibly low contrast with the white background, making it very difficult to read anything.

I have no idea how to use it! It's so frustrating i have no flippin idea how to get the books on my shelves! Like it says you can upload your own books to the site but hoe the heck are we dose to read books that have been uploaded! Please can someone explain the point of it and how use the app because right now is making me angry!

Love, love, love it!!! An app that's got all on one place. You have all your books here, the ones you read, the ones you want to read and the ones you are currently reading. it's simple to use, and I love how you get recommendations what to read next. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 star is because the navigation trough the app isn't good. There's a main menu icon missing (you know, the four line icon somewhere on top that could lead you to any of the main sections of goodreads) so you have to press back button 100 times

The Good Reads app aspires to "meh" status. Seriously guys, what's the point in having a reading social app if you can't give a thumbs up to other reader's reviews. Might as well just used the website. Giving three stars because it does allow me to check out what other readers think of a title before I buy, so...

Shelves are still an issue Even with the newest update I downloaded with bug fixes, I'm still running across the issue of my Y-Z titled shelves not showing up in the list, which is very maddening when I want to tag something as 'young-adult' or 'youth' (which is basically everything). As a die hard Goodreads user, I hope they fix this soon =(

A good app, but... The UI couldn't have been better, but the app is a bit slower than your average app, and does not have as many options as the website. For instance, I wanted to set the read date for a book but there was no option to do that, so please start improving this app because you've gotten so close to make it perfect,

It is very slow and unlike other apps, Goodreads will stop loading if you switch to other apps without letting it finish loading the page. It will give you an empty page. This doesn't happen with Twitter, Tumblr and FB. I need to wait for it to completely load the pages first and it doesn't even load fast! Which is why I had to set my automatic lock to from 15secs to 1min because 15secs is too short to load the page. I am also certain that this has nothing to do with my connection.